Do you think theyd let us play an otr game there next year? Looks like a great venue and has worked well in Oz playing TGG at cricket venues. Marketers dream too (get lost Gutterfax) as never been done before to my knowledge. Oval ball at the Oval?

Been used for Oz Rules in the past.

Not a chance, they can't risk damage to the cricket square

and our season runs parallel with the cricket!

Think a problem would be our seasons clash, we go feb to sept they go April to sept, so I suppose it could be done in the early rounds. Would our attendance even be noticeable at the oval though, what does it hold?

They could just open one stand and play it nearer that stand.

Are we still talking about on the road games? Christ.

Maybe we could rebrand as The Londonist Hobos? Until tomorrow we'll just keep moving on.....

You might be too young for that.

I think there might be some mileage in this. That could make a good club badge.

Im pretty sure it wasnt black and white when i watched it. I aint that old!!

At least he has some bite!

Only ever at the end of the Cricket season. No way would they allow it during the season

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
ON the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

I think you're right but be aware that 3 grades of RL were played every second week at North Sydney Oval for decades in winter.

Yes, but thats in Australia where it doesnt rain all summer

Well that`s the club anthem sorted....although the songs a bit `ruff` and the other clubs will think we are `barking`

Youre moving to Barking ? , 1 St I've heard of that

hahaha, don't believe the ads Starbug

It poured down on me in ' waterworld/land and movieland/world ' when I visited and that was in January , but at least there were no queues

twas a poor, very wet summer. Sods law innit?

It is a great venue, and Surrey CCC seem fairly innovative and proactive with marketing initiatives. (I think they'd do what they could to get the punters in even if our own club showed its usual inertia in that respect.) Unfortunately I think the clash of seasons would rule it out. Last day of cricket there this season is 7 September, and there's no way they'd let any code of football use it any earlier in the year than that. You're really only looking at October or November in terms of availability I think. If the Superleague season began and ended a month later it might be a goer.

Capacity is 23,500 and virtually the whole ground has been rebuilt during the last 25 years, so it's a fairly state of the art cricket ground these days with great corporate and members' facilities.

I saw the last Aussie Rules match there in October 2006 between Geelong and Port Adelaide and enjoyed it - I think it pulled around 15,000. (I'm not sure why it hasn't happened again since then, but don't think it's down to SCCC not wanting it.)

There's a football match due to be played there in early November this year between Royal Engineers and The Wanderers; the two clubs that contested the first ever FA Cup Final on the same ground in 1872.

The Oval probably has the best public transport links of any major sports ground in England. Only a couple of miles from the centre of the capital, it's got its own tube station with direct links to London Bridge, Waterloo, Euston and King's Cross, while Vauxhall tube/train station is only five minutes walk away, and there are various bus routes going in all directions.

Not sure I'd really want to watch RL in a cricket ground though. You'd be a long way from the action on at least some sides, depending exactly where the pitch was marked out. The Aussie Rules used the whole of the field and was marked out diagonally to the line of the cricket stumps.

I forgot to mention , that was 9 years ago

London Broncos RL could played their 2012 home fixtures v St Helens, Huddlesfield (sic), Castleford, Wakefield, Bradford, Hull FC, Widnes and Catalans at the Oval, one after the other and still there would have been 1,237 EMPTY SEATS



Why, on gods blessed earth, would anyone want to take a game to a stadium that holds 23,500 when we are averaging less than 3,000

To make an event? To encourage more fans to come? To do something original? Here comes the 14 point stat laden drivel from Gutterfax......

Do you really think the club are capable of organising such a thing.